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🇺🇲 Chapter 1 | Until the Girls from the Projects Called Themselves "Supreme": The Birth of Diana Ross and The Supremes 〜 | "Someday We'll Be Together": The Supremes' Last Number One and the Farewell Night in Las Vegas

 

 

 

 

Every time I hear the opening of "Where Did Our Love Go," I feel something strange. There is hardly an instrument to speak of: just hand claps, stomping feet, and a single voice as clear as a girl's. And yet that tiny combination of sounds climbed to the top of the American charts in the summer of 1964 and became the dream of girls all over the world.

 

The owner of that voice was Diana Ross. Beside her stood Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson. Three girls raised in the same public housing project in Detroit passed through a stretch in which they were laughed at behind their backs as "the no-hit Supremes," and then went on to score twelve American No. 1 hits. It is one of the most glamorous success stories in the history of American music.

 

But behind a glamorous story there is always a quiet shadow. Success has a price, and not everyone paid it in the same currency. Chapter 1 follows the road from late-1950s Detroit to January 1970, the night Diana stepped off the Supremes' stage for the last time. Her journey as a solo artist belongs to Chapter 2.

 

 


🏙️ A Girl From Detroit — The Dream That Began in the Brewster Projects

 

Detroit in the 1940s and 1960s was, as its nickname "Motor City" says, a city of automobiles. Factory smokestacks, the people who worked inside those factories, and their families. Many Black families had come up from the South looking for work and were starting new lives in the city. And where people gather, music gathers too: gospel in the churches, swing in the jazz clubs, doo-wop on the street corners. The children who breathed that air would go on to build a music factory called Motown.

 

In one corner of that city stood the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects. On March 26, 1944, Diane Ernestine Earle Ross was born in Detroit, and her family eventually moved into the projects: father Fred, mother Ernestine. Compared with the old tenement where they had lived before, the apartment was bigger and the fixtures were newer. For a family with little money, it is said, it felt like a step forward. Diane would later become Diana, and the world would come to know her by that name.

 

It was in this project that the girls who would become the Supremes met. Florence Ballard was born on June 30, 1943, the eighth of thirteen children, and she had been singing in a church choir since she was small. Mary Wilson was born on March 6, 1944, and was Florence's best friend. Diane attended Cass Technical High School, where she studied dress design, while Florence and Mary went to Northeastern High. Their schools were different, but after class I imagine they sat under the same sky above the same project, listening to the same songs on the same radio.

 

Let me wind the clock back for a moment and touch on another protagonist: Berry Gordy Jr. Born and raised in Detroit, he had worked on an automobile assembly line, tried his hand at boxing, run a record store, and written songs. After writing several hits for Jackie Wilson, he started a label in 1959 with a small sum borrowed from his family. That label was Tamla, and later Motown. From the assembly line, it is said, he learned one lesson: if you combine excellent parts in an excellent order, you can produce the same quality in volume. Gordy set out to apply that idea to hit records.

 

But the beginning of this story is not yet a giant factory. In a project hallway, in an after-school classroom, in front of a radio, three girls held nothing but the wish to sing. Singing looked like the one exit from poverty and boredom, and they set out to find that exit with their own hands. That is the very first scene of the Supremes' story.

 

 


🎤 The Primettes — Four Girls Form a Group

 

In 1958, Florence Ballard met Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks, members of a Detroit male vocal group called the Primes. These two would later become central figures in the Temptations. The Primes' manager, Milton Jenkins, learned that Florence could sing and that Paul's girlfriend, Betty McGlown, could too, and he hit on the idea of a "sister group." That became the Primettes.

 

Florence invited her best friend, Mary Wilson, and Diane joined, completing the foursome in 1959. What must not be overlooked is that, at this point, the center of the group was not Diane but Florence. She had founded it, and she was its first lead singer. Her soulful, powerful voice, it is said, was regarded among her friends as the best of the group.

 

In the early Primettes, who took the lead changed from song to song. Mary favored soft ballads, Florence hot soul, and Diane accessible pop. Three different voices lived side by side within one group, and that created the curious sense of "sharing" that would later define the Supremes. They gathered after school, sang at dances and talent contests, and put out records like "Tears of Sorrow" on a small Detroit label, Lu Pine. A song with Diane in the lead, a song with Mary in the lead: it was a free-spirited period in which nobody yet knew who would be the "star."

 

In 1960, one of the members, Betty McGlown, dropped out and Barbara Martin joined. And then the girls made a big gamble. Diane asked an old neighbor, Smokey Robinson, for help. Smokey, already emerging as the lead singer of the Miracles, arranged an opportunity for them to audition for Berry Gordy. An "old neighbor" from the projects ended up moving the history of Motown. People's connections are strange things.

 

The girls sang for Gordy with no accompaniment. The song was the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby." Gordy liked what he heard but judged them too young and too inexperienced. Come back, he told them, after you finish high school. Ordinarily that would have been the end of the dream. But the girls did not give up.

 

 


🚪 The Door to Hitsville U.S.A. — Meeting Berry Gordy

 

2648 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit. A sign hung on the front of an ordinary two-story house: "Hitsville U.S.A." This was the home base of Berry Gordy's Motown. In the basement of the house was a small studio where songs were written, recorded, and reworked, day and night.

 

When school let out, the Primettes headed for that house nearly every day. Gordy had told them to come back after high school, so in principle they had no reason to be there. But they kept coming. They stood at the door even when they were mostly ignored. Eventually, as if worn down by their persistence, the people at Motown gave them small jobs: hand claps and backing vocals on recordings by senior artists such as Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells.

 

"Hand claps" sounds like a small job. But I think this period was the Supremes' most important apprenticeship. How hits are born, in what order, in what kind of atmosphere; how professional players layer their sounds in a recording room. The girls absorbed it all with their whole bodies from a corner of the studio. The experience of watching Motown, that giant "music factory," from the lowest possible vantage point must have become the foundation of their later strength.

 

In 1961, having graduated from high school, they finally signed with Motown. Gordy asked them to change the group's name, and a handful of candidates were offered: the Darleens, the Sweet Ps, the Melodees, the Royaltones, the Jewelettes. Florence rejected every one and proposed her own: the Supremes. The Primettes became the Supremes. Looking back, it feels a little sad that the person who chose the name was Florence, the group's founder.

 

Signing did not bring instant success. Barbara Martin left in early 1962, and the group became a trio of Diana, Florence, and Mary. Their singles did not sell. Inside Motown, they were jokingly called "the no-hit Supremes." Mary Wilson later recalled that they had already put out around ten records before their first big hit in 1964, most of them lovely songs written by Smokey Robinson. Still, they could not reach the upper chart positions.

 

All the while, Motown was polishing the girls. Maxine Powell, who ran the company's in-house Artist Development department, taught them stage deportment, speech, even how to wear a gown, so that they could carry themselves with dignity anywhere. Gordy had a clear ambition: to turn Black artists into stars of the American mainstream, beyond racial lines. Girls from the projects were gradually becoming people worthy of the name Supremes. Even the name Diane was changed, to Diana.

 

For an insider's view of this period, there is Mary Wilson's memoir, Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme. It lets you reread a glamorous success story through the eyes of a girl from the projects.

 

 


🎵 Holland–Dozier–Holland — "Where Did Our Love Go" and Five Straight No. 1s

 

The turning point came in 1963, when Motown's songwriting and production team Holland–Dozier–Holland began working on Supremes songs: the brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, and Lamont Dozier. "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" was the first song they wrote for the group. Gordy decided to concentrate the team's power on the Supremes, and this decision ran almost in parallel with another: making Diana the group's official lead singer. At the end of 1963, Gordy chose Diana as lead.

 

In the spring of 1964, Holland–Dozier–Holland prepared a song called "Where Did Our Love Go." It is said that the song was not originally written with the Supremes in mind. It had been prepared for the Marvelettes, who turned it down, and so it landed in the Supremes' hands. Worse, the Supremes themselves did not like it either. Mary Wilson later said that they had thought it was a terrible record. Persuaded by the production side, they recorded it anyway. The single came out on June 17, 1964, and entered the Hot 100 at number seventy-seven.

 

Then, in August, it climbed all the way to No. 1. At the time, the girls were crisscrossing America on Dick Clark's "Caravan of Stars" tour, and they are said to have been both astonished and thrilled that their song had hit the top. It was that stomping record that knocked Dean Martin out of the top spot. In Britain, too, it was their first chart entry, and it reached number three.

 

What I love about "Where Did Our Love Go," no matter how often I hear it, is its subtraction. No thick horns, no flashy guitar solo. The center of the rhythm is the sound of people actually stomping their feet on the studio floor. Over it, Diana's light, clear, girlish voice floats softly. Just a simple repeated phrase, "baby, baby," yet the voice asks where love has gone, whispering, a little lonely. A voice that does not overpower but draws the listener in by closeness. This would become Diana Ross's weapon.

 

One more thing should not be forgotten: Diana's voice fit this kind of songwriting astonishingly well. Not a voice that pushes through by force, but one that sits close to the breath. It gave the slightly grown-up love songs Holland–Dozier–Holland wrote a perfect intimacy. If Florence's deep, hot voice was a "cry of the soul," Diana's was a "confidence whispered in your ear." This is not to say one was better. It is only that the pop charts of the mid-1960s wanted the latter.

 

"Baby Love" followed in October 1964, and it reached No. 1 in the United States, and in Britain as well. Holland–Dozier–Holland kept the air of the previous smash while making the song even more polished. Then came "Come See About Me," "Stop! In the Name of Love," and "Back in My Arms Again," five consecutive No. 1s in all. Through this run the Supremes became the first Motown act with more than one American No. 1. "Stop! In the Name of Love" even produced that famous choreography with a palm held out in front. When the three of them make that one gesture together, the world of the song appears before your eyes.

 

It matters, too, that "Baby Love" topped the British chart. In 1964 the British Invasion was in full swing, with the Beatles and other British bands sweeping America. In that moment, three women raised in a Detroit housing project took the top of the British chart in return. I think it was one of the most vivid moments in the back-and-forth traffic of music across borders.

 

Let me pause and consider the mechanics of this run. On the surface, Holland–Dozier–Holland songs look alike: a light rhythm, an accessible melody, lyrics about the bewilderment of love. But listen closely and you notice new touches added to each one. The Motown studio musicians' deft playing, the precise arrangements finished in a short time. When this "factory" system met the Supremes' voices, I think it worked at its most efficient and its most beautiful. What was the first Supremes song you came across?

 

 


🌟 The Summit of the Girl Group — From "Baby Love" to "You Can't Hurry Love"

 

At the end of 1965, the Supremes won their sixth American No. 1 with "I Hear a Symphony." The song, which sings of the moment of falling in love by saying "I hear a symphony," showed that Holland–Dozier–Holland's writing was evolving toward richer arrangements. With strings and winds added, Diana's voice, too, gradually moved from a girl's whisper toward a grown woman's sheen.

 

In 1966 their hits grew sharper still. "You Can't Hurry Love," true to its proverb-like title, sings a mother's advice to her daughter over a light rhythm. And then "You Keep Me Hangin' On." Every time I hear it, I sit up straight at that intro, where a dry guitar sound keeps scratching at the nerves. In this song, which confronts a lover with "don't leave me hanging," Diana's voice drops its former sweetness and rings cold and sharp. It was the moment a love song turned from a passive prayer into a declaration of her own will. "You Can't Hurry Love," "You Keep Me Hangin' On," "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone," "The Happening": four No. 1s in a row from late 1966 into early 1967.

 

By the numbers, the success was off the charts. In just under three years, from August 1964 to May 1967, they scored ten American No. 1s. In the history of American popular music, few groups have taken so many summits in so short a time. At their peak, their popularity around the world is said to have rivaled the Beatles'.

 

The change in their look mattered too. The Supremes were the first Black female performers of their generation to embrace a "feminine" image with fully worked-out makeup, glamorous gowns, and wigs. The three on stage looked like residents of a dream. It was also the result of Maxine Powell's training and of Gordy's strategy to create figures that white and Black audiences alike would admire. And yet I see layered over it the earnest longing of girls from the projects searching for who they wanted to be.

 

They opened new doors on television as well: Hullabaloo, The Hollywood Palace, The Della Reese Show, and above all The Ed Sullivan Show. From December 1964 to December 1969, Sullivan invited them back again and again. At a time when it was still rare for Black performers to appear on the family television set, they pushed that wall open, quietly but surely.

 

America at that time was in the middle of the upheaval of the civil rights movement. The Supremes were not a group that put political statements up front. But the very fact that they appeared "ordinarily" on television and took No. 1 spots on the charts "ordinarily" was, I think, a quiet revolution in itself.

 

 


📺 The Age of Television and Albums — The Triumph of "Supremes A' Go-Go"

 

In the music business of the 1960s, singles were the stars and albums were often treated as collections of leftovers. But Gordy did not want the Supremes to be a singles-only group. Motown carried the slogan "The Sound of Young America," yet for Gordy the Supremes' ultimate goal was not the number of hits but a position as "national entertainers of America." Parents as well as the young, Black and white alike, watching the same three women in front of the same television: I think that was the picture he held in his mind.

 

That ambition shows in the lineup of their albums. A Bit of Liverpool (1964) took on songs of the British Invasion, the Beatles among them, so that in an age when British music was sweeping America, Motown answered head-on. In 1965 came We Remember Sam Cooke, a tribute to Sam Cooke; Country, Western and Pop; a Christmas album; and At the Copa, a live record made at a renowned nightclub. Gordy asked them to sing across genres, well beyond the borders of soul.

 

As the title At the Copa indicates, they performed at prestigious adult venues such as the Copacabana in New York. A young Black female group, dressed in gowns, enchanting a grown-up audience with polished songs and patter. In it you can see Gordy's strategy of making Black music accepted as "adult entertainment." Girls from the projects had somehow arrived at the front door of show business.

 

On October 22, 1966, the Supremes set another historic record. The album The Supremes A' Go-Go rose to No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. It was the first time an album by an all-female group had reached No. 1 in America. At a time when male rock groups dominated the album chart, three women stood at the top. The assumption that girl groups were "residents of the singles world" was quietly overturned by them.

 

In 1967 they also released two contrasting albums: The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland and The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart. The former collected songs by the songwriting team that had sent them out into the world; the latter was a set of Broadway and jazz standards written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The front line of the pop chart and the tradition of the American songbook. By moving between these two poles, the Supremes were trying to grow from "girls born of a hit factory" into "carriers of American entertainment."

 

Watching the three on television, you notice a curious harmony. Matching gowns, matching choreography, matching smiles. In the middle of it, Diana's large eyes and long, graceful neck naturally draw the camera in. And on either side are Mary and Florence. When the three fit into one picture, there was certainly a finished beauty of "a group." Yet Gordy, outside the frame, may have been fully aware that the center of that picture was drifting toward one person.

 

Here I also feel something a little complicated. Gordy's strategy led them to success. But at the same time, it was a process of fitting their "individuality" into a mold of polish and mass appeal. Florence's hot, soulful voice gradually lost its place within that mold. The next section is the story of that shadow.

 

 


⚖️ The Tragedy of Florence Ballard — Dismissal and Solitude

 

After "Where Did Our Love Go," Diana took the lead on nearly all of the Supremes' songs. Gordy and Holland–Dozier–Holland judged that her voice was the "pop" voice that would reach the largest number of listeners. Commercially, that may have been right. But for Florence, the group's founder, whose powerful voice many people considered the best, it was also a process of slowly losing her place. Even today, the voice of Florence preserved in the early Supremes recordings has a force that seems to hit you directly in the chest.

 

Small distances opened up between friends who had grown up together. Gordy's special treatment of Diana is said to have sent ripples through the company as well. Florence came to rely on alcohol and repeatedly clashed with Gordy and with Diana. She increasingly skipped scheduled shows and recording sessions. Mary Wilson, it is said, stood between the two as a steady listener and a comforter. The quietest of the three, she may have been what held the group together, if barely.

 

In the spring of 1967, Gordy asked Cindy Birdsong of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles whether she could take Florence's place. Preparations went on without Florence's knowledge. Then, in the summer of 1967, the engagement at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas became Florence's last stage appearance as a Supreme. One night, Florence was beside Diana and Mary. The next night, Cindy stood in that spot. A person quietly disappears from the stage; the speed and cruelty of it leave me without words.

 

Florence's life afterward was sad. She tried to restart as a solo singer and signed with ABC Records, but success did not come. The terms on which she left Motown are said to have been unfavorable to her; she hired a lawyer and eventually won a settlement, but financial hardship continued. She is reported to have been pushed to the point of needing public assistance. In 1975, a settlement payment let her buy a house, and she seemed to be getting back on her feet. It is also said that Mary Wilson asked her to sing together again.

 

On February 22, 1976, Florence died at thirty-two, the result of a blood clot in a coronary artery. Diana Ross attended the funeral. Her appearance was photographed and distributed around the world; for most people, that single image was the only glimpse they ever had of Florence's funeral. Girls who once laughed together in the same housing project: one asleep among flowers, the other standing in the flash of cameras. The contrast is almost too heavy to bear.

 

It is easy to turn this into a story with a single villain: Gordy's coldness, Diana's ambition, Florence's own struggles. These elements are tangled together, and the testimony of those involved differs depending on where each one stood. The one thing that is certain is that the "factory" system that produced success sometimes left behind the individuality and dignity of the people working in it. Florence's voice still lives in the early Supremes recordings. Listening to it is, I think, the most honest way to face her.

 

 


👑 "Diana Ross & the Supremes" — The Day the Billing Changed

 

In 1967, the Supremes' billing was rewritten. First, modestly, as "The Supremes with Diana Ross." Then, in the summer, officially, as "Diana Ross & the Supremes." The marquee at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas is said to have been changed at Gordy's insistence on July 20.

 

What this change meant is plain. The grammatical subject of the story had changed from "three" to "one." Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong became "the Supremes" standing behind Diana. Many people believe that by this point Gordy was looking toward Diana's solo career. Making Diana a star became the biggest project of Gordy's years that followed.

 

Under the new billing, the hits continued. "Reflections," an experimental song that took in the air of psychedelia, reached No. 2. "Love Child" in 1968, a socially conscious song about the sorrow carried by a child born into poverty, went to No. 1. At a time when pop music was moving beyond love songs to reflect real society, the Supremes kept pace. That same year, a joint album and television specials with the Temptations were made, and the pairing of Motown's two great groups drew enormous attention.

 

Meanwhile, the roles of Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong, both on stage and on record, were gradually shrinking. On recordings, backing vocalists such as the Andantes often did the work, and only the group's name kept its shape. The meaning of the name "Supremes," "the highest," should have symbolized an equal relationship among three. On the day the billing changed, that meaning shifted a little.

 

Even so, I do not think it is fair to speak of Diana Ross as a "traitor." She too was a young woman who had been chosen, polished, and pushed up by Gordy. In 1967 she was twenty-three. Handed enormous expectations while the distance between her and her old friends widened, she must have carried complicated feelings. Success sometimes brings distance from the people closest to you. A friend who sang with you in a project hallway slowly becomes "the backup" on stage, and watching that under a sign bearing your own name cannot have been easy for anyone.

 

There is one small fact about names. The name of the girl who was originally "Diane" was changed by Gordy to "Diana." A difference of a single letter. Yet that one letter seems to me to symbolize the transformation from "a girl in the projects" to "a star of the world."

 

 


🕊️ The Departure of 1969 — "Someday We'll Be Together" and the Farewell Stage

 

1969. Diana Ross's move into a solo career was only a matter of time. Motown announced the addition of a successor, lead singer Jean Terrell, within that year. By November the split is said to have become official.

 

At the end of that year, the Supremes prepared the last single they would release with Diana: "Someday We'll Be Together." The song had originally been recorded by Johnny Bristol and others in 1961, and Bristol was preparing a new version of it in 1969. It was recorded as Diana's first solo song. But when Gordy heard the finished track, he decided to release it as the final single of "Diana Ross & the Supremes."

 

There is a great irony in this song. Neither Mary Wilson nor Cindy Birdsong sang on the record. The Supremes' last American No. 1 was in fact made by Diana's voice alone. The title phrase, "someday we'll be together," takes on an entirely different meaning once you know that fact. At the end of 1969, the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was their twelfth American No. 1.

 

January 14, 1970. The Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas. The night of the final stage appearance of Diana Ross & the Supremes. The program included a medley of early hits, recent successes such as "Reflections" and "Love Child," and covers like "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." And at the end, "Someday We'll Be Together." When the song was over, Diana thanked the Frontier Hotel and all the fans who had been with them through the last ten years, and introduced the new lead singer, Jean Terrell, to the audience. A recording of that night was later released as the double live album Farewell.

 

Six days later, Diana was in the studio, recording "Reach Out and Touch," her first single as a solo artist. For Supremes fans, the 1960s formally closed on that day. Meanwhile, Mary and Cindy welcomed Jean Terrell and kept the Supremes going. Gordy is said to have considered replacing Terrell with another singer for a time, but Mary refused, and the group continued in a new form.

 

The name Supremes continued afterward as members came and went. Then in June 1977, Mary Wilson, the last original member, decided to leave on her own, and a farewell concert was held at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. Generally, the history of the Supremes is considered to have closed on that night. It had been a journey of about eighteen years since three girls began singing in a housing project.

 

When I listen to the recording of that night, I can't help imagining it. A girl from the projects has come this far. And from here on, it is no longer "three." The weight of that fact must have quietly filled the air of the stage. In the applause of the hotel audience, perhaps each of the three was picturing a completely different future.

 

 


⭐ What the Supremes Left Behind — The Rock Hall and "Dreamgirls"

 

Between 1964 and 1969, the Supremes recorded twelve American No. 1 hits. It is a record no other American group has broken. They were Motown's greatest stars and one of the most successful Black vocal groups in America in the 1960s. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and Rolling Stone ranked them number ninety-six on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

 

Their influence extends well beyond the history of girl groups. It is often pointed out that a line of descent runs from the Supremes to Destiny's Child and the world of Beyoncé: a female vocal trio, refined style, a bridge between pop and soul. Every one of those templates was made in Detroit in the 1960s.

 

The Broadway musical Dreamgirls (1981) and its film version (2006) draw their inspiration from the Supremes' history. The glory of a Black female group, the replacement of the lead singer, and the one singer left behind. The character Effie is said to carry echoes of Florence Ballard's life. That a story in fictional form moved so many audiences, I think, is because a real sorrow was reflected in it. Incidentally, Florence was inducted posthumously with the Supremes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

 

There is no complete "happy ending" in the Supremes' story. Mary Wilson died on February 8, 2021, at seventy-six. Of the original members, only Diana Ross is still living. The name Supremes continued into the 1970s and beyond, with changing members, but the three from the peak years almost never stood on the same stage again. A joint appearance on the 1983 television special celebrating Motown's twenty-fifth anniversary is said to have been the last time Diana, Mary, and Cindy sang together.

 

In 1986, former members Jean Terrell, Scherrie Payne, and Lynda Laurence got together and resumed activity as the Supremes. This group, with no original members, is called "The FLOS" (The Former Ladies of the Supremes), and is distinguished from the original. The name carries on. But the combination of those three voices was something that could only happen once.

 

Even so, that stomping sound is still ringing today. Whenever the intro of "Where Did Our Love Go" plays, the image rises of girls from a Detroit housing project stamping on a studio floor. Glamorous success, and the wounds left behind in its shadow. Carrying both, the Supremes' music still sounds, more than half a century later, surprisingly bright, and a little bittersweet.

 

What path did Diana Ross walk after leaving the Supremes? "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," the film Lady Sings the Blues, "Upside Down," and the rain-soaked concert in Central Park. Her second life I want to tell in Chapter 2. What does the music of the Supremes bring back to you, and what hours of your life does it carry?

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Girls from a housing project knocked on the door of the city of hits, began with hand claps, were laughed at as "the no-hit Supremes," and finally took twelve American No. 1s. And that success story held within one story the solitude of Florence, the rewriting of a billing, and a song that sings "someday we'll be together" while one person walks away alone.

 

On January 14, 1970, Diana Ross stepped off the Supremes' stage. But her journey truly begins from there. On to Chapter 2. 〜🎤

 

 

 

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